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School: Caitrín Naomhtha, Eachdhruim (roll number 14423)

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Aughrim, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Pádraig Ó Ceocháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0029, Page 0527

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    are shapes of hearts on a stone outside the doorway.
    It is said that the Danes built this Castle about three hundred years ago. It was only two-storey high with eight rooms in each storey. Fragments of the roof are buried under the grassy fields outside.
    There is also a circular ditch, and an outline of scanty trees to be seen. There is a great spring-well some distance away form it, and it is called "Connolly's Well".
    Afterwards, the house belonging to the Castle was given to Penders and they still have it, but they got a new house about a year ago,
    (Betty Carthy, Northbrook)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Betty Carthy
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Northbrook, Co. Galway